Procure-to-Pay (P2P) initiatives often flounder with poor user adoption rate. This whitepaper focusses on the key requirements of the end-users, which can help the P2P program managers to design-in a process that will lead to a successful P2P initiative.

This white paper will focus on the challenges in managing contracts and how technology can be utilized to address these challenges.

This white paper will focus on factors that demand change in sourcing process and how advanced sourcing approaches can make the process more efficient. It also highlights the best practices that can be adopted at various stages of the sourcing process.

This whitepaper will focus on problems prevalent in the process followed to measure procurement performance and how technology can be leveraged to improve procurement performance.

This whitepaper will focus on the 5 key steps to effective supply chain management and the role technology plays in achieving these imperatives.

This whitepaper explores the e-Sourcing features and functions that sourcing teams are specifying most frequently and the benefits they are hoping to realize from the upgrades.

This whitepaper will delve into the challenges that impede effective contract lifecycle management (CLM) & later will provide the 5 steps that organizations can adopt to realize value from CLM.

A look at e-Sourcing specifications emanating from high-tech companies at the moment suggests the early adopters are now craving more flexible solutions and more comprehensive e-Sourcing functionality that can support truly global, end-to- end management and control over well defined and well informed sourcing processes.

This whitepaper explores the e-Sourcing features and functions that high-tech companies are specifying most frequently and the benefits they are hoping to realize from the upgrades.

With global economies still struggling to recover from the devastating financial market meltdown and resulting global recession of 2008-09 - and unemployment rates for professional workers lingering at exceedingly high levels - it might be difficult to accept there is a talent crisis brewing in the procurement and supply management functions. Download this whitepaper to get insights into the talent management strategies that can meet the challenges of the coming decade.

The goal of this report is to present & discuss specific non-price factors that sourcing teams can and should be using to award contracts and help generate ideas for those teams looking to use more expensive list of evaluative criteria during the sourcing process.

This whitepaper will look into the impact of Procure to Pay (P2P) on the key 4 areas of,

1. Compliance
2. Transaction processing
3. Invoice processing cost and
4. FTEs

This whitepaper takes an in-depth look at a 5 step process to create an agile supply chain. By taking the case of a real-life corporation we also elaborate on how procurement technology solutions play a pivotal role in each of the 5 steps enabling creation of a faster and more agile supply chains.

This whitepaper discusses the five key tactics and strategies procurement organizations are beginning to deploy, often in tandem, which will form the basis of strategies in the next decade.

This whitepaper looks into the procurement enhancement model implemented at successful procurement organizations within the banking and financial industry (BFSI). The model is based on Zycus' experience of successful procurement technology and process implementations at a variety of global organizations from the BFSI sector.

This whitepaper provides an insight into the latest advances in spend analysis from Zycus Inc. From being known for analysis of historical spend data, spend analysis has now evolved to include features like automatic savings opportunity finder and real time classification etc.

This white paper takes an in-depth look at the reasons for the collaboration challenges between procurement and legal departments and the technology and process initiatives that can bridge these gaps.

This whitepaper provides reader with an outlook on the need for procurement and finance to unite, the challenges faced by the two in collaborating and the role of technology in bridging the gap between procurement and finance.

This whitepaper will focus on how BFSI sector can leverage on procurement technology to offset the challenges of downturn and pressure on the bottom line with emphasis on the importance of clean data to realize savings.

This whitepaper will focus on the unique software delivery mechanism followed by Zycus Inc. to ensure organizations are on the path to realize the true benefits of automation. The paper also provides insights into the flexible approach of Zycus in establishing taxonomy schema for organizations.

This whitepaper provides a comprehensive overview of the 6 key strategic imperatives (visibility, compliance, contribution to the bottom line, alignment & collaboration, technology adoption & innovation) focused by high performing businesses and offers insights into technology & tactics used by some of the best-in class organizations. which have had direct impact on the organizations bottom line, resulting in procurement moving at the heart of high performing businesses.

This whitepaper provides insights into the challenges procurement professionals face with traditional eSourcing tools and how advanced eSourcing helps overcome the challenges faced by organizations to ensure they remain ahead in a competitive & dynamic marketplace.

This whitepaper covers the major challenges involved in procurement technology adoption and how an organization can use '4 pillars' to overcome the adoption challenges and ensure acceptance of the procurement technology solution by the end users.

This whitepaper covers the major challenges involved in procurement technology adoption and how an organization can use '4 pillars' to overcome the adoption challenges and ensure acceptance of the procurement technology solution by the end users.

Today, spend data analysis is no longer a nice to have but a vital need of the enterprise. But simply collating spend data from the various sources in the enterprise does not achieve anything concrete. This whitepaper provides insights into the challenges and benefits of enterprise spend data classification. It also elaborates on the processes that can help successfully extract actionable information from your spend data which in turn can help organizations create strategic sourcing initiatives and achieve savings.

This whitepaper provides insights into the importance of a consolidated view of supplier data, process status and relationships in risk assessment, managing supplier performance and improving on cross functional relationships within organizations.

As the economy moves towards recovery from the events of the last couple of years, procurement needs to look at becoming more pro-active to issues and challenges that it might face compared to being the fire fighting, reactive approach that it generally resorts to. This whitepaper highlights the importance of supplementing technology like spend analysis, eSourcing and others with market intelligence and analytics to ensure that procurement moves beyond the role of a buyer and becomes a business advisor, adding strategic value to the organization.

It is one thing to decide that enterprise spend management is a good thing for colleges and universities, quite another to transport the disciplines from the corporate private sector into the realm of academia.While spend management is becoming an increasingly critical discipline for colleges and universities, there are significant challenges not seen in corporate entities. This white paper examines some of the unique spend management challenges that colleges and universities face and offers a step-by-step roadmap for getting started with cost savings in an higher-education setting.

Developing a globally aligned supply base helps organizations in leveraging on the specialization offered by the diverse supply base. Also, it enhances the level of competition thus driving down on costs. This paper highlights how Supplier Performance Management (SPM) can be used as a catalyst in developing a globally aligned supply base. It also discusses how SPM can be used to measure, analyze & manage performance of suppliers to alleviate risk, cut cost & drive continuous improvement in vendor management, thus ensuring a sustainable supply chain.

This white paper lays down 5 steps which the procurement department can utilize to identify and act on cost saving opportunities, even when the data available with the organization is of not very good quality. The 5 steps represent simple and short processes with minimal resource investment.

This white paper talks about the stages in the SPM lifecycle and also shows how relating suppliers' raw performance data to both scores and scoring benchmarks would enable procurement and supply chain organizations to view supplier performance across spend categories and the entire supply base in ways that can inform future sourcing and procurement decisions.

The purpose of this paper is to help sourcing and procurement executives understand where their organizations stand on the maturity curve for supply-risk management and what they can do today regardless of company size or resource availability to start moving in the right direction.

After witnessing scenes of rising costs and profits spiraling downwards in the past 18 months procurement now needs to go beyond being a catalyst for cost savings and supply chain performance. Instead it now needs to undergo a complete transformation and become a driver in every strategic business initiative.

Contract visibility and the linkage of contracts with enterprise spend are the keys to achieve maximum contract compliance. This white paper focuses on certain practices that can ensure streamlined contract management processes that can support implementation of contract management solutions.

Many of the eSourcing applications implemented at various organizations have failed to deliver the necessary business benefits and have fallen well short of the targeted ROI. The single most important reason for this is the lack of user adoption (with respect to strategic sourcing initiative) both within the organization and more critically by their suppliers.